Eleven Water Divine Pills.
Lu An looked at the alchemy manual in his hand, but he was already frowning, and even his eyes became much more dignified.
The reason was very simple, the book in his hand was not ordinary thick.
Eleven materials, this was very common in the refining of medicinal pills, especially in high-grade medicinal pills, it was already considered a very small number. Even the average number of types of sixth-grade medicinal pills was already more than eleven, and the average number of types of eighth-grade medicinal pills was more than thirty, not to mention that ninth-grade medicinal pills were even more complicated. However, all the alchemy manuals that Lu An had seen so far were not as thick as the one in front of him.
Moreover, it was far from being as thick as the one in front of him.
The alchemy manual in front of him was already more than three inches thick, even thicker than a fist. Lu An first casually opened a page, but found that the words inside were very small and very dense. Just one page had more than 800 words, and the two pages had nearly 1800 words. And such a thick book, the number of pages was probably more than 400, and the content was unimaginable.
How could there be so many?
Lu An was very puzzled, even if there were more notes and explanations for the eleven materials, it was impossible to reach such an outrageous level. With doubts, Lu An briefly scanned through the alchemy manual, and seriously opened the first page to read.
Just reading such a thick book would take a long time, not to mention seriously understanding or even memorizing the content. In particular, the content was not as easy to understand as a normal book, it was all very complicated explanations, logic, and vocabulary, greatly increasing the difficulty of reading.
Even if it was Lu An, he spent an entire two hours before reading this Pill Manual seriously from beginning to end, and he tried to understand the contents within it. Moreover, it was merely this. This could only be considered as a superficial reading, and there was no in-depth reading or thinking at all.
When he closed the last page and put the book in front of him again, Lu An took a deep breath, and his eyes did not become more dignified, but became extremely heavy.
Finally, he knew why this book was so thick.
Finally, he knew why the number of medicinal pills refined in thousands of years did not exceed 10,000.
It was not the rarity of the materials, but the method of refining. This book had a lot of records.
The opening page of this Pill Manual had a very detailed description of the eleven materials, including the origin, attributes, usage, reactions, and so on of each material. But even so, one type of material could only take up two pages of content. The eleven types of materials only took up the first twenty-two pages, and the hundreds of pages after that were all pill recipes.
Moreover, there was more than one kind of pill recipe, and each kind of pill recipe had more than one method.
There were also eleven materials, but there were a total of twenty-one refining methods. Of course, these twenty-one types were all summaries of the refining process, and all of them could be used to successfully refine the eleven Water God Pills. Whether it was the order or the refining method, there was a huge difference between the twenty-one methods. It could be described as completely different. It was a complete twenty-one methods.
Not only that, but even for each refining method, after the overall description, there were also many complicated notes and notes written on experience. These were notes written by many people using their own experience to refine pills after they had succeeded in refining pills using this method, or suggestions and improvements to the original pill recipe, including the environment, dosage, technique, and so on. Every note was very detailed and recorded the experiences of different people.
Some notes were more, some notes were less. If all these notes were counted, the number of notes in the entire pill recipe probably exceeded two thousand.
Lu An looked at this book solemnly. This was not a pill recipe in the normal sense at all, but more than two thousand ways to refine a type of medicinal pill.
In history, many people who succeeded in refining would make notes to this book, constantly adding and supplementing. Although there were more than two thousand methods and close to ten thousand people who succeeded in refining, the majority of the other people used pen and ink to add the number after they had succeeded in refining according to their own notes. Lu An read from the beginning to the end. Among the two thousand methods, the method with the highest number of success was marked at the back with eleven times of success. Adding on the original, it was twelve times. No matter what, Lu An should start with the method with the highest number of success first.
It was just that Lu An did not understand why a type of medicinal pill would have so many refining methods. This was seriously too strange. In the past, medicinal pills had strict procedures and rules, and could not have the slightest mistake. But the eleven Water God Pills were not like this at all.
There were so many methods, so many notes, but the final result was only one. This was a very complicated process. In fact, if Lu An was unable to break through in one method during the refining process, he would have to change methods, which would be very time-consuming.
More importantly, the refining time for the materials was also very long, especially the materials outside of the Zong Xing. Some of them even needed to be refined continuously for a few years or even close to a hundred years before they could be slowly transformed into the state they wanted. Among all the methods, there was a second change and cultivation of the materials. It was very complicated. The slightest mistake in the cultivation process would make close to a hundred years of hard work go to waste.
Finally, Lu An understood why there were less than ten thousand pills in ten million years. This difficulty could not be described by grades, and it was not something that could be saved by any method.
The four materials in front of him were the simplest of the eleven materials. But the simplicity was in the cultivation process without too many changes, and there were still countless differences in the refining, dosage, and method. But Lu An was very clear that this level of difficulty was like the difference between heaven and earth when compared to the entire pill manual. He could only try his best to comprehend the simple parts first and analyze the countless forms contained within the energy in order to prepare for greater possibilities in the future.
This was going to be a very long refining process. Lu An did not know if it would delay his cultivation. Even when he was resting during the cultivation process, he had to think about the possibilities of the medicinal pills.
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Outside the Milky Way, in another galaxy.
This was an extremely dark galaxy, especially in the periphery of the galaxy. Most of the stars were like this. And if one were to observe the entire galaxy from a grand perspective, one would realize that the entire galaxy was moving very slowly. It was so slow that it was difficult to distinguish between galaxies and star streams. There was almost no pattern to speak of.
They were only moving, moving around the center of the galaxy in a complicated manner. But like other galaxies, they were almost spherical. In the core of this galaxy, the stars were filled with obvious red light. The red light did not only exist on the surface of the stars, but also in the vast universe.
On the stars in the core, there was a large number of life forms, and they were divided into a large number of races. These beasts were scattered around the periphery of the core. As for the center of the core, which was the innermost star stream and star system of the galaxy, there was only one main race that survived. The other races that existed there were all subsidiary races of this race.
It was none other than the Spirit Race.
The Spirit Race dominated the center of the galaxy, and only a small number of foreign races had the right to enter. Every one of them was extremely loyal to the Spirit Race, or had been controlled by the Spirit Race. Even among all the life forms in this galaxy, the existence of the center was a huge mystery, a mystery that could never be solved. Even if some life forms also had powerful spatial abilities and could enter the center through spatial teleportation, there was no way they could come out alive.
Those who trespassed would undoubtedly die.
And at this moment, on one of the stars in the center of the galaxy, there was a very solemn hall in a huge pavilion. Even though the hall was not very big, and there were only a few seats, from the fact that this hall was located on the top floor of the pavilion and the strength of the Spirit Race people guarding it, it was clear that this hall had a very high status. It was not a place that ordinary Spirit Race people could enter or even get close to.
At this moment, the doors to the hall suddenly opened, and two people walked in. There were already two people sitting inside.
The doors closed, and the two people walked in and sat down. The four of them sat in a circle, and it was possible to see each other's expressions.
The four of them all had serious expressions, and they did not speak or smile. The four of them looked like middle-aged men, but this galaxy also had the ability to use energy to preserve their youthful looks. In actuality, it was impossible to estimate how long these four people had lived.
The four of them did not even exchange pleasantries. After the two people who had been sitting there saw the two people who had just entered sit down, one of them spoke in a low and cold voice.
"Since everyone is here, we can have a proper discussion."
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